Security?
Or is that a bad word?
A utility company has opted for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) connectivity technology for its IoT deployment, crapping all over competing connectivity techs in the process. "We looked at proprietary technologies in the early days because NB-IoT didn't exist. We came to the realisation that we wanted to stick to our …
Or is that a bad word?
Not a bad word, but it has first been translated from English into Mandarin, then Hindi and Tiếng Việt by people who are not native speakers of the previous language. Then converted back, via Chinglish for the poor sods who are tasked with creating this. The hardware engineers will have one translation, and the software developers will have another. The whole thing will be driven by a team who's original ideas were copied from a manglement PowerPoint presentation by a marketing drone.
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As they say - they're sticking to their core strengths, of which comms is not one. So it's natural that given the need to choose between multiple unproven options, they go for the only one one which offers an SLA. What's surprising is to see a utility make a sensible decision when technology's involved.